The Rasmus singer wonders why someone else “gets the girl, the Holy Grail” in the new song

September 14, 2018

Finnish romantic The Rasmus rockers have proven they still have blood in your veins with their emotional new track ‘Holy Grail’. The single and the lyric video for it surfaced on YouTube already on September 13, a day before the scheduled release. Check out the song and its lyrics below.

The video was filmed in Tokyo by Jani Klemola and shows vocalist Lauri Ylönen walk unnoticed amidst the hustle and bustlle of the depersonified Aisian city. The singer wonders why he’s always been “a stranger in a crowd”, a ghost to his dream girl while someone else gets the pearls:

All by myself, all by myself All by my ordinary solitary self I still believe we live for the pain And someday the stranger in the corner wins the game And gets the crown Gets the girl The Holy Grail

A couple of weeks prior to the release Ylönen revealed that ‘Holy Grail’ was inspired by the band’s recent long tour and is dedicated to those “mysterious figures at the back rows” – solitary fans at their shows:

“I wrote this song last spring, as we were on a long tour of Russia,” says The Rasmus frontman. “During the journey I thought a lot of about loneliness. Sometimes I focus special attention on the fans in the audience standing alone in the back, where lights can’t reach, and in some way I see myself in them.”

The Rasmus have just hit the road for a massive world tour Dark Matters. The Northern musicians will be playing Europe and South America till the end of the fall. The European tour leg opened in Moldova a few days ago and will continue soon with a show in Tallinn, Estonia on September 21 (get your tickets here).

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